Charlotte Hornets guard Nic Batum understands he’s been the lightning rod this season for general criticism over his team’s poor record.
He doesn’t take offense to fans ripping him. He also doesn’t pay the least attention to the noise.
“I don’t really care about it,” said Batum, a 6-foot-8 Frenchman in his 10th NBA season.
“If you play basketball as a pro, you go through that. For the last four or five years, I stopped” listening to or reading fan chatter, Batum said Tuesday, following practice.
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